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From Reuters:
By Mark Heinrich
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has turned over a long-withheld blueprint showing how to mould uranium metal into spheres for nuclear warheads, meeting a demand of U.N. investigators ahead of a watchdog report, diplomats said.
A senior diplomat close to the IAEA said a top Iranian nuclear official turned over the uranium metals document at a meeting in the agency's headquarters in Vienna last week.
IAEA inspectors came upon the document accidentally in 2005 while examining Iranian nuclear facilities suspected to have military dimensions. Iran had allowed inspectors to look at but not make copies of the document for investigative purposes.
O.K so they turned over a crucial document in the manufacture of nuclear weapon's but they didn't make 10,000 copies of it, for them, and their proxies.
Iran has said it received the blueprint unsolicited from the former nuclear smuggling network of Pakistan's A.Q. Khan, which laid the groundwork for Iran's programme, but did nothing with it.
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5 comments:
Actually, those Iranian "nuclear blueprints" are useless for making bombs, and there's better and more detailed information on making nukes available for the public (courtesy of the US and UK government declassifications) that Iran would not have needed the blueprints to make bombs anyway. Read the facts at IranAffairs.com
"Actually, those Iranian "nuclear blueprints" are useless for making bombs, and there's better and more detailed information on making nukes available for the public (courtesy of the US and UK government declassifications) that Iran would not have needed the blueprints to make bombs anyway. Read the facts at IranAffairs.com"
Well the site you directed me to was as I suspected rife with puff-pieces for Iran which is no surprise concerning the sites owner, and author.
Now I'll admit I'm not a nuclear physicist or anything but combining
nuclear+blackmarket+A.Q Khan+IAEA non-compliance, certainly goes a long way's in proving Iran's real intent concerning their nuclear program.
I am not against any country having a nuclear power generating ability, although I think it is an issue of genuine concern regaurding any middle east nation.
It would be a hard pill to swallow but as long as any nation complies with inspections, and the IAEA guidelines, and play by the rules,they should be allowed to generate nuclear power, even the middle eastern ones. So be it.
Iran however in the very long term, should never be one of those nation's.
Had you read the links on that site, you'd see that
1- According to an American nuclear expert quoted in the LA Times, the "blueprints" were useless, and
2- According the BBC, the British government had for years left declassified nuclear bomb design documents in the open for the public, and
3- The "Nth Country" experiment showed that there are enough open sources of information for anyone interested to make nukes
Nuclear weapons are 60+ year old technology. They're not a secret.
I think you missed my point.
Iran went looking toward's the black market since day one to get it's nuclear program going, instead of going down the proper path.
They have been going about it clandestinely, all the while issuing Islamofascist rhetoric, at the world, and blocking inspection's.
The fact that the blueprint was worthless is not the point. What if it wasn't?
They evidently didn't think it was worthless at first otherwise they wouldn't have taken it.
If it was a peaceful program, then why accept a supposed weapons blueprint?
I am focusing on the nuances of the situation. The whole, not the part.
Iran will claim they are manufacturing a peaceful nuclear program right up until the day the firt atom's split.
Iran went the proper path until the US blocked it in 1983. SPeaking of "proper paths" when will the US start to abide by its own NPT obligations?
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